Sniff packets in WSL on Windows

Written By sai suman

If you are running “scapy” to sniff packets or any of the packet sniffing libraries that open a raw socket, you will see “Operation not permitted” error.

Cause: WSL or WSL2 simply does not have the permission to touch Windows sockets. They use a vNIC for communication.

Fix: Instead of setting up a port forwarding step, you may just run your program using the “sudo -E” prefix.

Example: sudo -E python SniffPackets.py

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